CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4528
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-01-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
directconn.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple 2.7.6 through 2.7.8 in Pidgin before 2.7.9 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a short p2pv2 packet in a DirectConnect (aka direct connection) session.
Affected configurations
• pidgin libpurple 2.7.6
• pidgin libpurple 2.7.7
• pidgin libpurple 2.7.8
• pidgin pidgin (<= 2.7.8)
• pidgin pidgin 2.0.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.0.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.0.2
• pidgin pidgin 2.1.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.1.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.2.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.2.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.2.2
• pidgin pidgin 2.3.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.3.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.4.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.4.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.4.2
• pidgin pidgin 2.4.3
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.2
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.3
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.4
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.5
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.6
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.7
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.8
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.9
• pidgin pidgin 2.6.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.6.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.6.2
• pidgin pidgin 2.6.4
• pidgin pidgin 2.6.5
• pidgin pidgin 2.6.6
• pidgin pidgin 2.7.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.7.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.7.2
• pidgin pidgin 2.7.3
• pidgin pidgin 2.7.4
• pidgin pidgin 2.7.5
• pidgin pidgin 2.7.6
• pidgin pidgin 2.7.7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/e76f4ad4ef2f10588195a0eedc7a08f82062f79c/with/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031/libpurple/protocols/msn/directconn.c Patch
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031 Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052862.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052905.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2010-December/009251.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42732 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42824 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42877 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:259 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/27/1 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/31/5 Patch
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=49 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45581 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0028 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0054 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0076 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665421 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18461 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/e76f4ad4ef2f10588195a0eedc7a08f82062f79c/with/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031/libpurple/protocols/msn/directconn.c Patch
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031 Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052862.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052905.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2010-December/009251.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42732 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42824 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42877 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:259 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/27/1 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/31/5 Patch
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=49 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45581 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0028 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0054 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0076 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665421 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18461 oval.cisecurity.org